"The safety village's little city in the back provides all the types of assets that we would need such as road lines, stop signs and street signs, everything you encounter in a day-to-day environment. It allows us to test in a safe and enclosed area," says Fairley.

He says other autonomous technology is not able to handle difficult weather conditions.

"They fail to function in areas of harsh weather environment and that can be seen not only on a full scale autonomous vehicle but on the very, very basic safety features that you would find in a car such as lane departure warning," says Fairley. "The second that you lose sight of the road lines, they all fail to function."

"Of course we're not going to have harsh weather in the next five to six month period, so we're going to miss the season unfortunately," says Fairley. "We really want to take our time on the engineering side of things and make sure this is a properly safe vehicle, so we can explore the safety village option. So we really want to take it slow, want to take our time, don't want to rush things."

Fairley says several auto companies have expressed an interest in the technology, but he wants to wait until it's patented before they share it.

The Children's Safety Village is located at 7911 Forest Glade Dr. in Windsor.